[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#527857: Bug#527857: network-manager: Causes system to freeze

[Michael Biebl]

Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.6.6-3
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> The system periodically freezes while connected to wired network while 
> wireless is still enabled (but not connected).  The syslog has lots of 
> wlan0 activitiy right before the freeze happens.  Unsure that 
> network-manager was at fault, I asked on debian-users, and many 
> confirmed.  Apparently, installing wicd corrects - further evidence that 
> network-manager is at fault.
> 

Well, this certainly looks like a driver/kernel issue, if your system freezes
completely. That wicd doesn't expose this behaviour doesn't necessarily mean
this is a bug in network-manager, only that this bug is *triggered* by
network-manager.

FWIW, can you reproduce the problem with network-manager 0.7?

Michael


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